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" The list of U.S. vetoes at the Security Council to protect Israeli aggression and occupation is huge. "

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" Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below. "

" The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the 'engineering of consent' by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays. "

" My proposal happens to be very mainstream. "

" My speculation is that the U.S. does not want to establish the principle that it has to defer to some higher authority before carrying out the use of violence. "

" It's a good idea to revitalize community colleges, to cut back, to modify the student loan program so it doesn't go through banks. "

" A financial institution has the task of taking risks, and if it's a well run institution - say, Goldman Sachs - it tries to cover the potential losses to itself, but only to itself. "

" For 500 years, since European explorers came, Latin American countries had been separated from one another. They had very limited relations. Integration is a prerequisite for independence. "

" Control is the source of strategic power. "

" It could be - and it has been argued, in my view rather plausibly, though neuroscientists don't like it - that neuroscience for the last couple hundred years has been on the wrong track. "

" Congressional Republicans are dismantling the limited environmental protections initiated by Richard Nixon, who would be something of a dangerous radical in today's political scene. "

" Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States. "

" The childcare tax credit makes some sense. "

" NATO was constructed on the - with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault. Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist? "

" Pakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily, and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society. "

" In the early 1940s, as a young teenager, I was utterly appalled by the racist and jingoist hysteria of the anti-Japanese propaganda. The Germans were evil, but treated with some respect: They were, after all, blond Aryan types, just like our imaginary self-image. Japanese were mere vermin, to be crushed like ants. "

" The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself. "

" The appropriate response to terrorist crimes is police work, which has been successful worldwide. "

" History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful. "

" Armed attack has a definition in international law. It means sudden, overwhelming, instantaneous ongoing attack. "

" One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson's investment theory of politics, as he calls it - very outstanding political economist - which essentially - I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state. "

" The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials - literally, which is why I'm teaching at MIT. "

" It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we've seen with the Internet's development. "

" You go back to the 17th century, the commercial and industrial centers of the world were China and India. "

" The 14th Amendment was recognized right away to be problematic. The concept of person was both too narrow and too broad, and the courts went to work to overcome both of those flaws. "

" My own feeling is that one should refuse to participate in any activity that implements American aggression - thus tax refusal, draft refusal, avoidance of work that can be used by the agencies of militarism and repression, all seem to me essential. "

" You could imagine a language exactly like English except it doesn't have connectives like 'and' that allow you to make longer expressions. An infant learning truncated English would have no idea about this: They would just pick it up as they would standard English. "

" States are not moral agents. "

" Under the worst conditions, horrendous conditions, people still, you know, fight for their rights and don't just succumb. "

" Popular struggles to bring about a freer and more just society have been resisted by violence and repression, and massive efforts to control opinion and attitudes. Over time, however, they have met with considerable success, even though there is a long way to go, and there is often regression. "

" In the early days of the military Arpanet, my daughter was studying in Nicaragua. Because the U.S. was essentially at war with them, contact was difficult. I managed to use MIT's Arpanet connection, and she found one, so we could communicate thanks to the Pentagon! "